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The City of St. Petersburg has shortlisted four proposals for the redevelopment of the 86-acre Tropicana Field site, eliminating plans submitted by Wendover Housing Partners and...
My 91-year-old mother got her first dose of the coronavirus vaccine Thursday. She hadn’t been ready to do so before. I’m just relieved that when she...
The University of South Florida is planning for a return to pre-Covid normalcy when its fall semester begins. In fact, in-person course delivery, on-campus activities and...
St. Petersburg’s Innovation District, an area of the city that includes USF St. Petersburg, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital, Bayfront Health St. Petersburg and the Florida...
The St. Petersburg Conference on World Affairs continued on Friday with a discussion about how the Covid-19 crisis has affected, and will continue to affect, the...
The St. Petersburg Main Library, which has operated under that name since its construction in 1964, was renamed the President Barack Obama Library Friday morning. In...
It’s easy to be pessimistic, given the pandemic, a gut-wrenching roll call of Black lives taken with impunity and scenes of Americans queuing for food. But...
Housing issues were front and center at Tuesday’s Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners meeting. Commissioners fought back against critics of their initial housing allocations from...
St. Petersburg Chief of Police Anthony Holloway participated in a virtual panel on Thursday, “Protest and the Police,” part of this week’s St. Petersburg Conference on...
In keeping with Suncoast Tiger Bay’s commitment to race conversations, this month’s virtual luncheon celebrated Black History Month by taking a closer look at St. Petersburg’s...